texas law enforcement alone has sees enough deadly fentanyl to kill every man, woman, and child in the entire united states of america. any war on drugs emerging in the key campaign issue. joe biden will never solve the fentanyl crisis. he is actively destroying our border. the stuff is just flooding in. it s affecting communities all across this country. what will it take to stop the flow of drugs into the united states? this is a red alert moment. it s punishing the drug itself really effective? what we need to assault this crisis in america. come together in bipartisan way. what is the best approach to the growing public health crisis? my guess this morning? dea administrator, anne and the entire ohio u.s. senate delegation. j.d. vance and democrat, shirt brown. a panel of experts on the front lines of this crisis. former chicago mayor, lightfoot. jen writer and dr. andrew colodny, the policy researcher collaborative at brandeis university. welcome to sunda
and, in fact, if you look at some of the strategies that have been tried in portugal, some of them have been tried in certain municipalities in the united states. and what you end up seeing is drug-overdose numbers go up, addiction numbers go up. so i think if the portugal approach could work here, it would have frankly already worked. look, some harm reduction absolutely matters, right? suboxone, sort of medically assisted treatment for people who are trying to break clean of this stuff. all that s part of the equation. but i think that if we believe we re going to solve the opioid problem by handing out needles, we re going to make the problem worse, and, in fact, we re already seeing evidence that we ve done this. so, no, i don t think that s the solution. but i do think that we should follow the evidence wherever it ultimately leads here. legalization is not going to help, but maybe doing medically assisted treatment more and making that more accessible, that s a good solution. s
university, children born during the pandemic have significantly reduced verbal, moat exposerall cognitive performance compared to children born prepandemic. that s our future and we should be very concerned about it. meanwhile, suicide attempts by young girls have risen by more than 50% and yet even that horrifying as it is it s just a small indicator of what is actually happening. for every teen who tries to kill herself, 100 others are living in agony. a new report from the surgeon general finds attempted suicides, anxiety, depression all increased markedly in young people in this country but it s the addiction numbers that are the worst. this year for the first time ever, the number of overdose deaths in the united states passed 100,000. that s up 30% from just last year, it s up more than 100% since 2015. at this point, more americans are dying from drug o.d. s than are dying from car crashes and gun deaths combined and as with suicide, an overdose is just the end point of a ver
according to a study from brown university, children born during the pandemic have recently reduced motor and cognitive performance compared to children born prepandemic. that s our future and we should be very concerned about it. meanwhile suicide attempts have risen more than 53%. it just a small indicator of what is actually happening. for every teen who tries to kill herself, 100 others are living in agony. a new report from the surgeon general finds attempted suicide, anxiety, depression all increase markedly in this country. but it s the addiction numbers that are the worst. the number of overdose deaths increased 100,000. at this point, more americans are dying from drug ods liniment dying from car crashes on gun death combined.
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